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Oct 10
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FieldNotes: Architect as Trailblazer

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UrbanWorks Principal, Patricia Saldaña Natke, participated as a design panelist for “FieldNotes: Architect as Trailblazer”. The platform created an opportunity for critical thought, discourse, and hands on experience between professionals and students from IIT, SAIC, and UIC. It highlighted  makers who are developing tools to generate form, analyze design and construct physical objects through the use of digital fabrication. Patricia joined Gordon Gill of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, Keith Besserud of SOM Black Box Studio, Kelly Blair of Central Standard Office of Design and Tristan d’Estree Stert of ORAMBRA as guest panelists on October 10, 2014 at the Offices of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill. Read more

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Oct 07
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Old Cook County Hospital Adaptive Reuse Charrette

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Invited civic organizations presented their visions for the Adaptive reuse of the Old Cook County Hospital. The Metropolitan Planning Council’s team: UrbanWorks, Brininstool Lynch, DLA Piper, Jones Lang LaSalle, Gorman & Co., MacRostie, Kretchmer, Primera Engineers, Sterling Bay, and the Chicago Public Art Group envisioned a new EPICENTER to serve as a hub, locus, nerve center for the City of Chicago. UrbanWorks’ concept – EPICENTER: WORK, LIVE, HEAL led by Principal Patricia Saldaña Natke, Associate Principal Maria Pellot and Designer Jose Esquinca, celebrated and captured the spirit of the original building as an urban office campus with conference space, student housing, assisted living, a child care center, and healing gardens. Presentations were held at the Chicago Architecture Foundation. View the full design presentation here Read more

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Aug 09
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CAF/CWA Emerging Chicago Tour

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UrbanWorks’ Galewood Charter School was part of the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Annual Emerging Chicago bus tour. The tour began at the CAF with an overview of the Lecture Hall Exhibit, followed by a stop at the GEMS World Academy, Clark Park Boathouses, and ending at the Galewood Charter School. Read more Also noted in NEWCITY’s July 30 Design Roundup: Pinups, Provacateurs, Proposals Read more

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Jun 27
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CAF/CWA 40 Year Anniversary Exhibit

By Exhibits, Staff Happenings

Maria Pellot, UrbanWorks’ Associate Principal, Ameera Ashraf-O’Neil, UrbanWorks’ Senior Project Manager, and Patricia Saldana Natke, UrbanWorks’ Design Principal, are featured in the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Women Building Change-Celebrating 40 Years of Chicago Women in Architecture Exhibit. UrbanWorks’ Veterans Memorial School Campus, Catholic Charities All Saints Senior Residences, and the Galewood Charter School are on display. The exhibit is both a historical retrospective and a modern reflection on the process of design. Open to the public until December 2014. Read more

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Jun 25
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AIA National Convention Tour of UrbanWorks Veterans Memorial Campus on the Chicago Schools: Designing for the 21st Century

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This 2014 AIA National Convention tour, Designing for the 21st Century, visits four Chicago schools to see how architects are designing and renovating spaces for the 21st century. UrbanWorks’ Veterans Memorial School is a 180,000 sq ft facility located in Chicago’s Archer Heights. Over 110 architects toured this abandoned baked goods manufacturing buildings which was transformed into two elementary schools and a high school, serving 1,800 students.  Veterans Memorial School is the receipient of the First Place Dreihaus Award for Excellence in Community Design and an AIA Chicago Distinguished Building Award.
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Apr 17
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Granderson Stadium Grand Opening

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UrbanWorks’ and Populous’ designed UICs Curtis Granderson Stadium officially opened on April 17, 2014. Granderson, a Flames Hall of Famer and current New York Mets outfielder was present to throw the first pitch. Granderson’s gift of $5 million to UIC is the largest one-time donation from a professional athlete to their alma mater. The new ball bark has total capacity of 1,784 seats, a press box, media suite, training room, team room, and two outdoor turf practice fields.

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Mar 20
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Newcity 50 Designers

By Publications, Staff Happenings
Patricia Saldaña Natke is selected as one of the 2014 Design 50 by NEWCITY. “Design is no longer an afterthought. At this cultural moment, design has come to embody both the capacity for creative vision and the means of realizing it. Newcity’s 2014 Design 50 entries celebrate this cultural shift. For the second annual issue, we’ve sought out Chicago’s most respected-and most promising-designers from across industries. They are visionaries and doers. They are Chicago’s top creatives.” by Newcity’s F. Philip Barash. Read More
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Mar 03
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Crain’s Chicago Emerging Designers

By Publications, Staff Happenings

Patricia Saldaña Natke, UrbanWorks’ Design Principal, is featured as one of Five Emerging Design Talents who are reshaping Chicago’s Architecture. “What the emerging talents of the city’s architecture industry share is a singular ability to reshape the built environments where they practice their trade. Sometimes the changes they create bolt into the public view dramatically…. In other instances, the shifts in the built environment they create are more subtle, such as a plan for the former Cabrini-Green area” by Crains Chicago Business’ Micah Maidenberg Read more

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Feb 26
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FieldNotes Session 4: Architect as Statesman

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Robert Natke participates in FieldNotes Session 4: Architect as Statesman – a platform for dialogue among students from IIT / SAIC / UIC and design professionals. The session highlighted understanding the practices of architecture in public policy, planning, urban design and legislation, including sustainability and historic preservation. Robert joined Carol Ross Barney of Ross Barney Architects, April Hughes of Farr Associates, Susan King of Harley Ellis Devereaux, Laura Fisher of IPM Consulting and Leonard Koroski of Goettsch Partners as guest panelists. Read more

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